A Library System to Support Model-Based User Interface Development in Industrial Automation

摘要

Conventional visualization systems in industrial automation are equipped with powerful library systems that offer aggregated reusable visualization elements. These represent important domain-specific knowledge and promote the necessary consistent look-and-feel of visualizations. In contrast, modeling languages used in model-based workflows do not offer library systems. This hinders the acceptance of such approaches in industrial automation. Hence, this paper presents an approach towards a library system for the model-based development of visualizations. We present a generic approach that can be applied to a variety of modeling languages. A case study demonstrates this for one specific modeling language and illustrates the application of the library system.